photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Friday morning, just after midnight (EST), the full Moon reaches her greatest distance from the Sun to illuminate what lies below the surface of our consciousness. I suppose Moonlight always lights what we can’t see with our daylight vision, but the degree of this full Moon offers the planetary psyche, all of us, ‘a new dimension of reality.’ This full Moon takes place as a celebration of the Sun’s entry into Sagittarius, a constellation of great hope and vision. Moon enters the opposite sign ofGemini as a way to communicate (the specialty of this sign) what Sagittarius wants to reveal.

The planet who guides Gemini, Mercury, the magician, lives at the degree of a special image of deep power and imagination: IN THE LEFT SECTION OF AN ARCHAIC TEMPLE, A LAMP BURNS IN A CONTAINER SHAPED LIKE A HUMAN BODY.

clay figure: Sarah Fuhro

How does the human body bring light to ancient problems? I depend upon my body’s response to tell me what my eyes cannot see. More and more I find that my breath changes perception. And as Mercury is on a retrograde journey, we must plan to stop for a moment to learn everything over again, the breath, the perception, the Moon lit road.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Think of this full Moon in Gemini as a new beginning in perception. Both Sun and Moon are at 0 degree, they are like a new pair of glasses, a new start more than a culmination. But are they emerald glasses? rose-colored glasses? Illusion or a clear vision?

‘A NEW DIMENSION OF REALITY’ is promised by this full Moon in Gemini, ‘The revelation of unconscious energies and submerged psychic structures’ cannot be seen if we don’t take a moment to look through the lens of the ‘Glass bottom boat.’ What can be seen may be murky at first, or even ominous.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Light through water plays tricks. Distance becomes illusory. We reach for something and it is beyond our grasp. Yet there is something about this underwater world which is intriguing, even necessary to our understanding of the dry land we inhabit. Maybe we can learn something from Jupiter, who has just spent the last year in Scorpio, a watery sign of the deep places. Now he is a few degrees from the Sun in his new sign, Sagittarius. He is there to support the Sun in the newly entered sign, which Jupiter rules.

This is the lunar month of Ngetal, the Reed, a time of dark days, and early nights. Reeds grow in swamps, the beginning of new life, the places of death and renewal, Scorpio. The asteroid Ceres (Demeter) is in Scorpio at this moment. She is in a trine with Mars in Pisces, release and endings. Everything in this chart conspires to offer power to the regal pair, Sun and Moon, ‘the luminaries.’

photo: Sarah Fuhro

Gold is light from the Sun reflected in a swamp near my house. Take heart, this is a full Moon to lift our spirits. Gemini, the chatter box and Sagittarius the visionary, push away the fears, which leap out to deter us.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

A new Moon in Scorpio offers a gate, an entry, a lintel to a place we would rather postpone or avoid. What happens when we feel the energy of a doorway? How much do we dare to feel in times of deep and perhaps sudden transformation. Look through the gate in the photo above, and see that the space beyond is magical, but the entry is blocked by large stones. The access is difficult and what lies beyond may not feel entirely friendly. This time is a moment of challenge. It is a time of ending. Many planets in this chart are in late degree…..about to experience a change of element and mood.

In the United States, the spectre of political death plays out everywhere, leaving only stunned silence. To prevent further attacks, we are told to hire ‘armed guards.’ Yet clearly this is about a transformation which feels too difficult to bear by some. Many planets are in retrograde motion, the energy of reversal before new journeys can begin. The new Moon will follow election day. We vote for the future in the darkest hour of the Moon’s journey.

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Before the new, we face the old….the fears that lurk in the entry way to new territory! The season of Halloween gives us that opportunity each year…to be terrified and then to laugh with relief as we see the phantom as an old bed sheet, and the demon as a trick of light. Whatever terrifies, also enlivens us! The heart beats faster and faster!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This particular new Moon in Scorpio is the astrological moment of Samhain (Halloween): 15 degrees of Scorpio! And the Sabian Symbol is: ‘ A girl’s face breaking into a smile’! Laughing… at Death? Smiling with the joy of understanding what lies behind the mask?

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Be prepared to go deep into the season of end and beginning, into the ‘Valley of the Shadow of Death.’ Feel the mossy walls of life renewal, the birch tree which grows into the stones with only one toe in life sustaining soil. Scorpio strips away ego, and leaves only the resource of ancestor and bone.

I wrote a poem about how this season feels to a tree…..

Going and Coming Sarah Fuhro

Hawk left my arms this morning,

My leaves sail away on their journey,

But Moon makes a promise:

Soon I will turn my face to you,

And we begin anew.

Hawk left my arms at dawn,

leaves sail away on their journey.

Moon makes a promise:

I will turn my face to you,

And we begin anew.

Bird, gone; leaves, gone; Moon turns her face,

and I am left with wind, and darkness.

My roots call Moon, call leaves, and bird

and, in the sweetest moment, they return.

Bird, gone; leaves, gone; Moon turns dark;

left with wind and earth, I call them back.

Keeping our Ancient Wisdom Alive

The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. For an appointment call 508 652 9880 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.